He wears his watch tucked into his fob pocket with the ribbon hanging out over his breeches, displaying the accessories. ![]() He would tuck his expensive watch in the pocket attached to a highly decorated watch string long enough to show from under his waistcoat.Ī Regency man will have a fob with a watch on one end and trinkets like tassels, watch key, seals, etc. For example:Īn 18th century man has a fob pocket on his breeches under a long waistcoat. This is the oldest of the watches and the Victorian ribbon fob I found.īefore purchasing your supplies, consider who will be wearing the fob and what they will be putting on the fob. Only one of them runs (the big one), but since I carry around a cellphone, I don’t really need the watches to function so much as look the part! Two of the watches are pretty recent, but the rose gold one is circa 1900-1920. In addition, I found an original man’s fob from the 1880s, and I just recently got a few pocket watches from my grandma, so I have proper watches to use as examples! They are great for displaying watches, trinkets, miniatures, jewels, and more for 18th and 19th century costumes.įor Laura’s Napoleon and Josephine Tea, I wore Christopher’s miniature portrait again and got a few requests for a tutorial on making one. Since then, I’ve made lots of such fobs for costuming purposes. ![]() ![]() To dress up our outfits, I made him a simple Regency fob/watch string and I wore a portrait miniature of him on a fob of my own. I’ve got Fobs that jingle-jangle-jingle as I go walking merrily along…īack in ye olden days (aka 2014), I attended a very chilly Georgian Picnic with my husband, Chris.
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